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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking

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